"Mrs Cook was known to be a skilled needlewoman and at the time of her husband's death in Hawaii she was embroidering a waistcoat for him to wear at court.
22.
In 1914, a team of expert needlewomen removed an old canvas backing and hand-stitched a new one of Irish linen, which still serves as the flag's support and accounts for half its weight.
23.
The Royal School of Art Needlework ( now Royal School of Needlework ) was founded as a charity in 1872 under the patronage of May, an accomplished needlewoman and designer in her own right, was active in the School from its inception.
24.
There were 42 " Sisters of Charity ", 4 teachers and a needlewoman " in Ladies'School ", 2 " Caretakers in Orphanage ", and 2 " Teachers in Day School "-the Ladies'School was for boarders.
25.
Similarities have been noted between " The Needlewoman " and " The Lady with a Fan "; not only do the facial features seem consistent, but so, too, is the brushwork of the face and chest.
26.
Not many years later, someone concluded a sampler of all she knew about drawn work and embroidery stitches with an astonishing Adam and Eve, so anatomically correct in every regard that you'd like to know something about Dr . Ruth's ancestors as needlewomen.
27.
Thus, artists like blacksmiths, potters, cobblers, painters, goldsmiths, brass-smiths, weavers earn their livelihood from what they produce while traditionally, from the past, Alpana artists or Nakshi kantha needlewomen were working within the home and received no monetary recompense for their labor.
28.
The last twenty years of his life were spent in Paris and Versailles, as preacher, director of souls, and founder of the " Syndicat de l'Aiguille ", a collection of loan and benefit societies for needlewomen, dressmakers, seamstresses, especially those young sewing girls who are called midinettes.
29.
She was married four times, firstly to Robert Barlow, who died aged about fourteen or fifteen on 24 December 1544; secondly to the courtier needlewoman, Bess joined her husband's captive charge at Chatsworth House for extended periods in 1569, 1570, and 1571, during which time they worked together on the Oxburgh Hangings.
30.
An 1851 census of the common lodging houses on Old Pye Street, which was the centre of the Devil's Acre, describes the occupation of 20 lodgers in one house as : five " beggars ", two " beggar bricklayers ", one " labourer beggar ", one " needlewoman beggar ", one " hawker ", one " labourer bricklayer " and one " errand boy ".
